The Ministry of Roads and Highway (MoRH) has issued an order to apprehend two illegal miners and compel them to mop up mud on a section of tarred road in the Atiwa West district in the Eastern region of the country.
The illegal miners were carting excavator with low bird truck vehicle from their mining site near the roadside spreading mud on the tarred road and causing gridlock.
The Minister who is also Member of Parliament for the area in the company of some constituency executives of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) bumped into the gridlock while returning from a funeral at Twapease over the weekend.
The Minister noticing the mess caused on the road by the illegal miners and destruction to the shoulders of the road, he furiously ordered his police guard to arrest the illegal miners which two were arrested but others escaped.
The illegal miners were forced to wash mud on about one kilometer of the road.
“My party executives and I were from a funeral and we came to meet this low bird trailer with Galamsey excavator. Look at this distance, more than a kilometer of road have been destroyed with muddy. The entire stretch of the tarred road has been muddied so no car could cross. All the vehicles have parked at both. They have destroyed the shoulders if the road so I stopped and ordered my body guard to arrest them”.
He continued that the illegal miners arrested have been handed over to the police.
“Their galamsey activities are destroying the road constructed with huge amount of the tax payers monies. Look at the destruction”.
"I turned them over to the police so that they may pursue their case according to the law. Police will conduct their own inquiry as they see fit.
Hon. Amoako Atta warned that the district would no longer tolerate unlawful mining and would instead adopt a "negative tolerance" policy.
"I am the representative for my constituency in Parliament, and I will cooperate with my District Chief Executive, who is in charge of DISEC, to support the government's viewpoint. Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo, the president of the republic, has risked his position in order to battle Galamsey and preserve the environment for future generations. In order to safeguard our land, we must also protect our water bodies.
-By Kojo Ansah |Starrfm| Ghana
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